Compass Datacenters provides solutions from the core to the edge. We serve cloud and SaaS providers, enterprises, colocation and hosting companies and customers with edge data center or distributed infrastructure requirements.
Compass Datacenters LLC builds and operates data centers in the United States and internationally. We offer build to order, custom personalization, custom-defined fit-out, cloud, and location-based data center solutions. We also lease Compass powered shells/fit-out ready data center structures designed to your requirements. We serve enterprises, service providers, and hyperscale customers.
2. Cloud Data Center
We’re all familiar with the phrase, “adding insult to injury”
and its more succinct cousin, “piling on.” Both idioms
describe when something happens that makes a bad
situation worse. For example, the jerk who hit your car in
the parking lot turns out to be your new boss, or the 30-
something-year-old kid who’s been living in your
basement long past the expiration date finally gets a job
– that requires him to work at home. To these examples,
we can now add a new symbiotic relationship between
corporate hacking and unemployment.
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3. Edge Data Center
For those that may have forgotten, commissioning aids
in ensuring that all systems work as designed thereby
reducing initial failure rates and verifies the operational
capabilities of the data center site. The goals of a
successful commissioning process include:
Verification that the equipment and systems perform as
they have been designed
Provide a baseline to use in the assessment of the site’s
performance over time
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Distributed Data Center
START BY SELECTING A COMMISSIONING AGENT
EARLY
Ideally, the selection of a commissioning agent should
take place during the pre-design phase of the project to
enable the budget and schedule can be developed early
on and the actual testing program designed to closely
mirror the future data center’s design.
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Enterprise Data Center
Experience with mission critical/data center commissioning.
On the job training is not a desirable commission
environment
Extensive knowledge of the project’s know topologies and
technologies. Documented client referrals.
Obviously, the commissioning agent needs to be an
independent third party that is contracted by the provider
and not a member of the project’s construction or
engineering firm’s to eliminate any potential bias. Once
selected, the commissioning agent is responsible for
producing the overall commissioning plan, scripts and the
system manual.
7.
8. What Is The Data Center
Commissioning data centers should be performed any time new
infrastructure is installed or there is a significant change to the
configuration of existing infrastructure. This could include
planned expansion of the data center or major replacements. In
data centers that are built to be scalable, it is imperative that
commissioning be just as rigorous for the expanded
infrastructure as for the original facility itself. While the site’s
initial commissioning program may prove the concept of the
design, the facility could potentially be at risk if all of the new
infrastructure components and systems are not tested
rigorously.
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9. Colocation Data Center
Commissioning of the newly added capacity occurs while
the systems are supporting critical IT load. During these
incremental commissioning activities, it is imperative
that the operations team work closely with the
commissioning team to ensure the integrity of the data
center throughout the process. Additionally, if re-
commissioning involves changes to the configuration of
the data center, Operations needs full awareness so that
operating procedures that impact maintenance and
emergency activities can be updated and tested
completely.
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10. Data Center Dynamics
Provision of adequate notice to service owners about the
schedule, duration, risk, and countermeasures in place
for the commissioning activities in order to gain
concurrence from IT end users. For facilities that are
based on a dual-corded IT equipment topology, the
commissioning team and operations’ personnel should
verify that the existing critical load is appropriately dual
corded where systems that support installed IT loads are
to be commissioned. Pre-plan load bank placement so as
not to impact the existing critical IT equipment.
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Data Centers Architecture
Detailed commissioning scripts must be prepared and
followed. Priority should be given to the live production IT
environment, and back-out procedures should be in place
to ensure an optimal mean time to recovery (MTTR) in
case of a power down event.
Seasonal testing of the systems should be performed to
verify performance in a variety of climatic conditions,
including extreme ambient conditions. This also ensures
that economizers, where used, will be tested properly.
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Data Centers Designers
A well-planned and executed commissioning program
will help validate the capital investment in the facility
from the construction of the initial building and the
infrastructure added over time to expand its capacity. It
will also put the operations team in a far better position
to manage and operate the critical infrastructure for the
rest of the data center’s useful life, and ultimately
ensure that the facility realizes its full potential.
13. Datacenter News
According to a study by the Ponemon Institute and IBM
Security, there were 1,579 data “breaches”—a more
benign euphemism for the theft of a company’s sensitive
information—in 2017, a 44.7% increase from 2016.
Although not formally recognized by any Standard
Industrial Code, hacking is a growth industry. As the study
indicates, the average unauthorized intrusion costs the
breached party an average of $3.68 million for everything
from lost business, reputational damage to the time
spent by corporate employees to stick a finger in the
proverbial dike.
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Virtual Data Center
While no one wants to see someone lose their job, seeing
a few “C’s” join the ranks of the unemployed isn’t an
unexpected mea culpa. But as the study found, the
ramifications of lapses in corporate data security impact
the average cube dweller more often than one might
expect.
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Data Centers Services
The researchers found that in roughly a third of security
breaches employees of all levels were afforded the
opportunity to “pursue other career opportunities.” The
study also found that these dismissals often included
members of non-IT departments. Unfortunately, the
scope of the costs associated with corporate hacks is
measurable via the synchronicity between angry
customers and sharp declines in revenue that result in
fewer folks reporting to the office on Mondays.
18. Datacenter Solution
Let’s face it, the tenuous nature of today’s workplace has made
the single company career with a gold watch at retirement a
thing of the past. But isn’t it reasonable to ask why the vagaries
of employment should include the capricious nature of foreign
governments and criminal syndicates from countries that
most of us couldn’t find on a map? While the departure of a CIO
has a particular cause-and-effect relationship to undesired
access to the company jewels, should the guy or gal in Accounts
Receivable have to become caught up in the carnage? Security
will continue to grow in importance for a variety of reasons,
happy customers being paramount among them, but ensuring
that unsuspecting personnel don’t become collateral damage
should also be part of the equation.
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19. Data Center Components
There is a popular misconception that commissioning a
data center is a one and done process. The initial
structure is completed, testing performed and everyone
walks away happy. Certainly successfully completing the
5 (five) levels of data center commissioning is a cause
for everyone to take a moment to congratulate
themselves on a job well done, but, as these days of
hyper scalable data centers for the cloud and SaaS, new
enterprise facilities and the expected proliferation of
edge locations remind us, commissioning is a continuous
activity.
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